Metro Nashville Council Member Wants People Not Wearing a Mask to Be Charged with Murder or Attempted Murder

 

Metro Nashville At-Large Council Member Sharon Hurt said Wednesday during a virtual meeting of the Joint Public Safety and Health Committee that there should be stronger legislation for those not wearing masks and suggested they be charged with murder or attempted murder.

Hurt said that she works for an organization that, “If they pass the virus, then they are tried for murder or attempted murder.”

Hurt thinks the same standard should apply to the general public.

“This person who may very well pass this virus that’s out in the air because they’re not wearing a mask is basically doing the same thing to someone who contracts it and dies from it,” she said.

“Maybe there needs to be stronger legislation to say that if you do not wear a mask, and you subject exposure of this virus to someone else then there will be some stronger penalty as it is in other viruses that are exposed,” the council member added.

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Hurt’s suggestion comes as the Nashville-Davidson County COVID-19 dashboard indicates a recent decline in new daily cases of COVID-19 and a fatality rate of 0.9 percent.

With regard to mask enforcement, Hurt was critical of the actions to date.

“It seems to me that we have been more reactive as opposed to proactive and a little too late, too little,” Hurt said.

Hurt had to be reminded by Metro Nashville’s Director of Legislative Affairs Mike Jameson, who also participated in the virtual meeting, whose jurisdiction it is to create a new code or class of criminal offenses.

“The Council does not have the opportunity on its own to create criminal legislation,” he said. “In terms of creating a new code or class of criminal offenses, that is a creature of state law.”

Hurt expressed her disappointment, “I was afraid that was going to be the answer.”

“I guess that’s the whole point of asking for something to be done as early as the Council was pushing,” she added.  “It seems it was not taken as seriously as it should have been and thus we are in the situation we are in right now.”

Hurt’s proposal came the same day that Mayor John Cooper issued a statement that the Metro Nashville Police Department was ordered to issue citations to persons not complying with the Health Department’s mask order.

The new initiative involves increasing police presence on Friday and Saturday nights with 24 officers conducting walking patrols on Broadway from 3:30 p.m. to midnight.  An additional six officers will be on ATVs to stop and cite any “transpotainment” vehicles operating in violation of the Health Department’s prohibition.

The additional 30 officers is an increase over the 19 school resource officers who have been on Broadway working on public mask compliance on prior Friday and Saturday nights since mid-July, the statement said.

Mayor Cooper once again enhanced his clampdown on Nashville’s main tourism attraction by prohibiting alcoholic beverage sale, possession or consumption except for on-premises or delivery through his Public Health Order 10 that went into effect Saturday.

The video of the Joint Public Safety and Health Committee can be watched here with Metro Council Member-At-Large Sharon Hurt beginning at the 1:01:40 mark.

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Laura Baigert is a senior reporter at The Tennessee Star.
Photo “Sharon Hurt” by Sharon Hurt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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148 Thoughts to “Metro Nashville Council Member Wants People Not Wearing a Mask to Be Charged with Murder or Attempted Murder”

  1. The Metro Nashville Police Department announced Monday that officers are being provided with printed advisories to give to people they encounter who are not in compliance with the order.

  2. Carter Mitchell

    After listening to the council meeting, one thing has become perfectly clear to me. I will under no circumstances visit Nashville for any reason, and our plans to escape the morons running Illinois by moving to Tennessee must be reconsidered. More research is obviously required to determine if other areas of Tennessee have fallen victim to the same forces of sheer stupidity that have infected Nashville and Davidson County.

  3. LibertyRising

    I’m confused: is being brain-dead a qualification or is it a requirement for membership on your city council?
    This broad seems to be over-qualified.

  4. Deano

    Including Pelosi ?

  5. Tom White

    Remove this woman from office and put her someplace where her insane thinking can not affect anyone. I’m not sure these psychopaths can even be helped–isolation would probably be best.

  6. Alex

    Face it: You know exactly WHY she was voted into office.

    1. Clem

      These are the same people who DEMANDED the war on drugs and now complain that there are police enforcing drug laws in their neighborhood!

  7. She has GOT to be one of those America hating Democrats hell bent on seeing the country burn rather than do anything positive at all for the people of Nashville. There is noi good purpose or reason to enact ANY of the lunacy that this idiot is suggesting. The ONLY thing this will accomplish is restricting or removing even more of our civil rights and liberties making the country weaker and further dividing us.

  8. Chau

    The one good thing about this virus is that it’s exposed and auditing everyone who has authoritarian like behavior and those who prioritizes freedoms first. Sharon has demonstrated that she is incapable of distinguishing the latter. Anyone who uses fear to justify executing a criminal law or has a lot more in common with Adolf Hitler than the common American

    1. Jim

      HAIL HITLER LADY
      THIS COUNTRY IS IN TROUBLE WITH PEOPLE LIKE HER

  9. Faith Ann Scheck

    Vote her out. Stupid on many levels

    1. Robert Scott

      Many comments are correct on this Sharon psychopath Karen willing to charge someone with murder for not wearing a mask. Remember the CDC on its own website states, “COVID19..is thought to spread by person to person contact…” Why do they say thought? It is because the scientific FACT is it has NEVER been proved as contagious from person to person. That concept is 100% theory and never in 100 years has and influenza/virus been proven to cause a disease, nor been transmitted person to person. You can make someone sick but since no virus has ever been Isolated actual disease causing effect has NEVER been proven. This is why masks are irrelevant!!!!!

  10. na

    Hi. I’m sharon, and I’m here to Hurt you.

  11. J Wilson

    Will all the people in favor of abortion be brought up on murder charges also?

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